Sunset forever in Sanchome is a drama film directed by Takashi Yamazaki and starring Hidetaka Yoshioka, Shinichi Tsuki, and Makoto Horikita, released in Japan on November 5, 2005. Set against the backdrop of a shopping street in Sanchome, Yuricho, Tokyo, Japan, the film recreates the life of ordinary people in 1958, when Japan's economy began to recover.
In 1958, the year the Tokyo Tower was completed, the town of Sunset (Dusk) in Shimomachi, Tokyo, was inhabited by a group of quite humane residents. Norimatsu Suzuki, his wife Tomoe, and his son Kazuhira run an automobile repair workshop, where they also work for rokuko, who has grown up from the countryside to Tokyo. Rokuko was full of hope that she could work for a large company in Tokyo, but she was discouraged by the fact that the factory environment and expectations were very different. On the other hand, Ryunosuke Chagawa, the owner of the confectionery shop who is at odds with Norbun, has always had a crush on Hiromi, who works at an izakaya, while Hiromi lives with Junnosuke, the child left behind by her ex-boyfriend. One day, Chagawa suddenly has to take care of Junnosuke's job, what will happen to their wonderful cohabitation life? What changes will Rokuko bring to the Suzuki family? What will the future hold for the residents of Sanchome in Yuricho?
This is a work that does not have a parting of life and death, but can make people move to tears in a faint warmth. Depicting the story of the Japanese people who lived in poverty in the late Showa period, many warm and happy pictures are full of humanity, and lament that such a life is really good. It's all a little bit of a blessing in the ordinary. But there are also some of the hardships and helplessness of life that make you cry.
Korean film and television dramas bring you into a fantasy fairy tale, while Japanese film and television dramas pull you back to reality, making you feel that life is like this, there is love, there is pain, there is laughter, there are tears, there are regrets, there is helplessness... But it is this taste that can be called real.